<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41555]]></link><description><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Up from Slavery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory belongs to the most persevering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory belongs to the most persevering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many Americans don't understand the importance of minority rights and the independent judiciary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many Americans don't understand the importance of minority rights and the independent judiciary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44710]]></link><description><![CDATA[A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16823]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30227]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snuffling through his nose some stale joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25515]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like quick sand, if u fall in it then there is no way out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like quick sand, if u fall in it then there is no way out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human - but it feels divine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19942]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human - but it feels divine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination, not your history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination, not your history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20746]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say there is no God...that we are squatting tenantsin the hostile house ofan absent slumlord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say there is no God...that we are squatting tenantsin the hostile house ofan absent slumlord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22994]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57479]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Across town another university, Southern University-Shreveport, made shelter preparations in the event that the newly opened shelter CenturyTel Center in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33242]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Across town another university, Southern University-Shreveport, made shelter preparations in the event that the newly opened shelter CenturyTel Center in Bossier City became full.] We will house the overflow from CenturyTel, ... Right now they're at 55 to 60 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em  Talk us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em  Talk us to silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36673]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How well I feathered by nest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51057]]></link><description><![CDATA[How well I feathered by nest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when they're going to start giving them out. They love taking their kids and getting fresh fruits and vegetables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6859]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations, and is not actively and objectively "there" in the place of power, irrespective of whether he is acknowledged or not, we should give up hope of our own rising, and of Jesus' public return, and admit that the idea of churches and Christians being sustained by the Spirit-giving energy of a living Lord was never more than a pleasing illusion. And, in that case, we ought frankly to affirm that, though the New Testament is an amazing witness to the religious creativity of the human spirit, its actual message is more wrong than right, more misleading than helpful; and we must reconstruct our gospel accordingly. Only a weak, muddled, or cowardly mind will hesitate to do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24100]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marimekko meets Machu Picchu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marimekko meets Machu Picchu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is brave is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16654]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is brave is free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11044</guid></item></channel></rss>